Week 13 Story: Alice and Humpty Dumpty

While Alice was walking along the forest she came to a tall wall with a weird looking egg sitting on top of it.  Alice found this quite odd and went up to the egg who introduced himself as Humpty Dumpty.

"Oh! Humpty Dumpty from the nursery rhyme!" Alice said.

"Nursery rhyme? I do not know what you are talking about." said Humpty.

Alice warned Humpty that it might be safer for him to get down off the wall, so that he doesn't fall and break.  Humpty was sure that this would not happen and told her that even if it did, the King promised to send all his horses and all of his men.

"Yes, but they won't be able to put you back together again." said Alice.

"Why must you talk so much nonsense?" Humpty said.

Alice didn't want to cause an argument so she gave Humpy a compliment on his belt he was wearing.  This frustrated Humpty becasue he was wearing a cravat, not a belt.  He told Alice that she was quite unintelligent for mixing up the two and that she best be on her way.  Alice was angered at this point as well and said "Fine, until we meet again."

Humpty replied back, "Even if we did meet again, I would not recognize you.  Your face it too ordinary. You have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth just like everyone else.  It would be better if your mouth was above your eyes."

Alice decided to ignore this comment and walk away.  As she was  muttering under her breath to herself about how grumpy Humpty was, she heard a large crash behind her.  She quickly turned around and saw that Humpty had fallen off his wall and broken into a million pieces. 

"Hmph!" she said.  "Serves him right for being so rude!"

Alice and Humpty. Web Source. 

Author's note: My inspiration for this story came from the Humpty Dumpty section in Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.  I kept my story mostly the same but elaborated in the middle section when Alice and Humpty are talking about his famous nursery rhyme (that is not so famous to him).  In the original I found it interesting that Humpty did not know that he was a storybook character and so I added dialogue between him and Alice to better explain that.  I kept Humpty's grumpy character the same because I thought it was an interesting take.  For the ending, the original text mentions the large crash but never says what it was.  I decided to go ahead and tag on the ending of Humpty falling off the wall as "karma" for being so rude to Alice. 

Bibliography: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.